Re: Call No. For DVD movies based on printed titles

I wonder about that (not that I doubt your public service people's 
veracity!!). I don't think most people even know that a particular 
movie is made from a book,  or from what book, in most cases. Some 
are from novels (some famous, some not), some from plays, some from 
original screenplays (and where to class them?), some purport to be 
based on real life (biopics such as Walk the Line), and I think most 
patrons just think of nearly all of them as movies and would rather 
browse by title.

I don't think there's anything wrong with classing those made from 
books with the book, but in many cases it will take extra work on the 
cataloger's part to determine whether it is based on a book (and how 
closely, anyway?), and what the book is. Is Clueless to be classed 
with Austen's Emma, for example?

Jack

At 12:04 PM 5/15/2008, Jenkins, Laverne wrote:
>I wasn't going to go there, but since Mac has, I must say that I totally =
>agree. I've tried to visit this with our public services people, several =
>times, but they insist that our patrons expect to find the movie of a =
>title in the same call# as the book. Never mind that they won't shelve =
>together because one is cuttered by author and the other is cuttered by =
>title, if the different formats are intershelved!  I don't know why the =
>tendency to think our patrons can't make the leap.

Jack Hall
Manager, Cataloging Services
114L University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000